Built for tour players, enhanced with their feedback, now applied to the regular golfer.
The non-negotiables, the gates they enforce, every metric definition with its thresholds, and a dated record of every time we've changed one. Read it, hold us to it.
Data Golf, ShotLink, Arccos, Clippd — all excellent, all free or close to it, and all of them stop in the same place: descriptive. Here is what was good. Here is what was bad. The player already knew that. Knowing your wedge distances leak does not tell you what to do standing on the tee of a 430-yard par 4.
We take it a step further, and this page is that step. The house rules and the non-negotiables are the qualitative analysis — the layer that turns a number into a way to play: how to play around the weak areas and into the strong ones. The stat is the input. The decision is what we deliver.
So we publish the whole thing. A judgment layer nobody is allowed to read is indistinguishable from no judgment at all. Every rule below states what it is, why it exists, and the shot it changes — because the last of those three is the actual product.
These are hard rules with real gates. If a player's data forces a choice that breaks one, we flag it in the report — we never bury it.
Every approach a player faces is reported in one of these bands — never a band invented for the round. A ladder chosen per report is a ladder chosen to flatter it.
Each of these changes where a player aims or what they practise. They are not house style.
Where our definition differs from the common one, the difference is deliberate and the reason is stated.
Including whether the numbers published before the change were restated. A changed gate is logged the day it changes — that is a standing obligation, not a courtesy.
Found something here we're not living up to in a report? Tell us — that's the point of publishing it.